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Chibi Maruko-chan: The main character Momoko Sakura's nickname is Maruko. She is almost always called by this name or a variant of it in place of her actual first name (i.e. in a situation in Japanese culture where the use of the first name would be called for).

Redline has "Sweet JP," our main character, a racecar driver who looks kinda like Travis Touchdown with even crazier hair. "Sweet JP" is obviously not his real name, it's just been heaped on him because he's the only racer who doesn't mount weapons on his Cool Car.

In Fruits Basket, the unfortunate Yuki Sohma gets the nickname of Yun Yun (which he points out is longer than his actual name. This does nothing to dissuade the nickname-giver, Manabe, however). Another student council member is branded with the Chibi (or Chibisuke).

Ayame gave Kyo the nickname "Kyonkitchi" (or "Lucky Kyo", in the English dub).

One Piece has many, most famously Straw Hat Luffy, since most enemies casually call him Straw Hat. This may be more Nom de Guerre, though, especially the ones in the form of The Magnificent.

Outside of titles, plenty of characters are given genuine nicknames, many by Luffy. This is most notable in Dressrosa, where we get Doffy (an Affectionate Nickname for Donquixote Doflamingo used by his Executives), Cabbage (Cavendish), Traffy (Trafalgar Law), and plenty more. Naturally, all of these have become Fan Nicknames.

Ayumu Kasuga gets tagged with the nickname "Osaka" after about five minutes. This proceeds to supplant her actual name, to the point at which she struggles to find it on the class listings, and then has it pointed out that they used her nickname, as well.

Also, Yukari-sensei's beat-up vehicle is dubbed the "Yukari-guruma", which means the "Yukari-car."

Speaking of Yukari-sensei, she calls her old friend Kurosawa-sensei "Nyamo" rather than her actual personal name Minamo. Tomo being essentially an adolescent Yukari does the same.

In Ghost Hunt, Mai immediately starts calling Tall, Dark and Snarky paranormal investigator Kazuya Shibuya "Naru", because it reminds her of how narcissistic she thinks he is.

Several characters start calling Saki "Rinshan-san" after she demonstrates her uncanny ability to win with Rinshan Kaihounote Rinshan Kaihou is when you acquire all 4 copies of any one tile, then draw the winning tile immediately after you complete the set - a purely Luck-Based Mission.

Momo typically refers to Nodoka as "Boobs-san", and has a few other nicknames for certain characters in her internal monologues, such as calling Tomoki "Ryuumonbuchi's glasses girl". Momo herself is often known as "Stealth Momo".

Kuro is typically referred to as the "Dragon Lord of Achiga", since she attracts Dora tiles.

Hiroko Funakubo of Senriyama is typically called "FunaQ" by her older teammates.

Saki typically calls her long-time friend Kyoutaro "Kyou-chan."

In Last Exile, Dio calls Claus "Immelman" after his trademark piloting maneuver.

Lucky Star plays with this one. Tsukasa calls Konata and Miyuki Kona-chan and Yuki-chan respectively. (Fairly normal.) Also, Konata tries to come up with a nickname for Kagami. Tsukasa mentions that an alternate reading for Kagami's name kanji is "Kyou", so Konata calls Kagami "Kyou-chan". That embarrasses/pisses of Kagami, and when Konata asks what she can call Kagami, Kagami's suggestion is to call her Kagami-sama (roughly translates as "The Great Kagami"). Naturally, this backfires when Konata actually does it. Kagami is so embarrassed that she asks Konata to stop, please, for the love of God.

In Dragon Ball, Goku comes up with the nickname "Eighter" ("Hatchan" in Japan), because apparently "Android Number Eight" (Or "Jinzouningen Hachi-gou" in Japanese) is too hard for him to say.

Kaori "Kao-chan" Miyazono from Shigatsu Wa Kimi No Uso. Kousei's nickname, "Human Metronome", also can be counted, but its more like an infamous Red Baron nickname for him.

In K-On!, Yui refers to her friends as, Azusa; Azunyan (Moe cat ears), Ritsu; Ricchan, and Tsumugi; Mugi. She probably would have given Mio a nickname if her name wasn't already short enough. For Azusa (and the others, in the anime), this becomes a clue when Ui tries to covertly fill in for a sick Yui, as she doesn't use these.

Fay in Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle uses a lot of nicknames for Kurogane (Kuro-sama, Kuro-rin, Kuro-tan, Kuro-wanwan, Kuro-daddy and many more), much to the latter's annoyance.

Durarara!! fans are fond of making use of Izaya's infantilizing nicknames for his "friends" — therefore, Shizuo and Kadota find themselves called Shizu-chan (or its loose translation Shizzy) and Dotachin quite a bit outside of the series proper.

Half the main cast of Paradise Kiss. Daisuke chooses the name "Isabella", partly to express her gender identity, and also because she apparently has a thing for European names. She imposes the name "Sebastian" on her servant Ueda, she probably inspired Jọuji to spell his name "George" (if not the other way around) and she calls Yukari "Carrie", but that's a nickname for her other nickname "Caroline", given by Miwako for no discernible reason.

In Detective Conan Kogoro Mouri is widely known as "Sleeping Kogoro," due to the sleeping posture when he solves cases. This is, in fact, the effect of Conan's using Instant Sedation needles on him and using a voice changer to imitate Kogoro's voice.

Sasamoto-sensei in GA Geijutsuka Art Design Class was known by her students as "Tono-sensei," due to an In-Universe application of Memetic Badass. When a couple of the GA-1 students are looking for her, the Art Club members (for whom Sasamoto is their advisor) can't remember her name, and resort to a brief anecdote which identifies her immediately.

Miyabi Oomichi, is known as "Professor" (except by Namiko, who calls her "Masa" via alternate reading of the kanji, and teachers, who use her surname); and played up to near-Only Known by Their Nickname levels.

The Liese twins from Lyrical Nanoha, Lieselotte and Liesearia, are known as Lotte and Aria as well as Liese when both of them are addressed. This has caused a major confusion among the fandom and most fans believe their names are actually written is eastern order in Japanese and think they are called "Lotte Liese" and "Aria Liese" in western order.

Lotte calls Chrono "Chrosuke"/"Kurosuke".

Reinforce Zwei's nickname is just "Rein".

Teana is called "Tea" by the other three Forward members.

Lutecia is called "Lulu", "Lu", "Lu-ojousama" "Lu-chan" and "Lu-ko" by her friends.

Zafira is often called "Zaffy" by Vivio and Isis.

Vita is called "Anego" ("Big Sister" or "Boss") by Agito and Lutecia.

Olivie's nickname was "Vivi" which explains Vivio's name origin.

Shario Finienno and Mariel Atenza are mostly known by their nicknames "Shari" and "Mari".

Nanamine gets the nickname "Usomine" (typically translated as "Liarmine") from his contributors after they suspect, correctly, that he's lying to them about how badly his series is doing in the rankings.

Also Mashiro's middle school colleagues often call him "Saikou", which is an alternate reading of his name "Moritaka". When Takagi starts to use this nickname regularly, Mashiro starts calling Takagi "Shuujin", which is an alternate reading of Takagi's name "Akito". One of Takagi's friends also calls him "Shuuto" in a flashback.

Azuki, as a voice actress, is often known as "Azukyun" by her fans and later "Abazurekyun"- derived from the Japanese word for "bitch" ("Bitch-kyun" in the Viz translation) after her relationship with Mashiro comes to light.

In Tiger & Bunny, Kotetsu immediately takes to calling Barnaby "Bunny" after their first outing as a superhero duo. ["Because you hop about and have long ears (referring to the antennae on Barnaby's Powered Armour) like a cute little rabbit!"] At first he just does it to annoy Barnaby, but it becomes an Affectionate Nickname once he starts to acknowledge him as his partner. Only Kotetsu actually calls him Bunny, but the other characters do get in on the fun, such as when they buy him a stuffed bunny for his birthday, or when Saito imprints a little rabbit logo on his supersuit.

The World God Only Knows' Keima, while very well-known among gamers as "The Capturing God/The God of Conquest," was also predictably nicknamed "otamegane" by his Real Life classmates. Crunchyroll's subs (and apparently the English dub) translated it to "dweeb" which, while lacking in creativity, is culturally accurate.

Ami and Mami have one for almost everyone on the main cast in the anime version of The iDOLM@STER.

In Black Butler, Grell gives Sebastian the punny and flirtatious nickname of "Sebas-chan" in the Japanese version. In the dub, she goes with "Bassy".

Doubles as a Pun Name since Sebas-chan is close to how Sebastian (Se-Basu-Chi-An) is pronounced in Japanese. Grell tends to have a rather punny way of talking in the Japanese version.

Harlem Beat: Mizuki calls Naruse “Narucho”, Sawamura calls Kiriko “Witch” and Kobayashi “Umbrella Guy” (based on the image of aloof umbrella maker during Jidai Geki), Takao nicknamed Kobayashi as “Musashi” for his samurai-esque attitude, Zukeran Tetsuya from Kyan was often called “Kemp” for his resemblance to Shawn Kemp, Those Three Guys from Threemen’s Hoop only known by their nicknames.

A few characters in Bokurano have nicknames, such as Aiko "Anko" Tokiosumi, Chizuru "Chizu" Honda, Masaru "Kodama" Kodaka, Takami "Komo" Komoda, and Mako "Nakama" Nakarai. The manga indicates that the latter suggested this as a way to make friends. Also in the manga, there's Junji Karita, who is dubbed "Katari" by the pilots, when he appears on TV falsely claiming to be a Zearth pilot.

In Yotsuba To, Fuuka's friend Hiwatari is called "Shimauu" (adapted to "Miss Stake" in translation) due to saying "Yoroshiku onegai shimau" ("Nice to miss you") when introducing herself at school.

Long Wei from Infinity Game refers to Meibo as "chalk girl" (due to her habit of hurting people with it) and Lu Xiao as "Puji" because she wore a Puji brand of hat and he didn't know her name at the time.

On Sailor Moon, Usagi/Serena is called "Odango Atama" or "Meatball Head" in reference to her unusual hairstyle.

Momotaro Nobi from 7 Seeds is called "Nobita" by several people, much to his dislike and frequent corrections.

Hak in Yona of the Dawn is known as the Raijuu or Thunder Beast of the Kouka Kingdom due to his claim as one of the, if not the best, soldier in the king.

Attack on Titan has a few among The 104th Trainee Corps; none of them particularly flattering.

Eren Yeager was known as "that suicidal bastard" due to his hot-headed temperament and eagerness to fight Titans. becomes a plot point later on when Armin uses the nickname to test his suspicions that the Female Titan is someone among the 104th.

Wendy Watson of The Middleman has the nicknames "Dub-Dub" and "Dubbie" (plus the various insults Ida slings in her general direction). And Lacey has her fair share of nicknames for the Middleman himself.

Rogue: The fact that "Rogue" was originally her childhood nickname may explain why there aren't that many other frequently used nicknames, although she has been referred to as "Red" and "River-Rat" occasionally.

Phoenix II (Rachel): "Red", "Ray"

Dazzler: "Lightengale" (mostly by Rogue), but usually "Ali" (short for Alison) or "Dazz"

Judge Dredd is often referred to by other characters as "Old Stonyface".

Bookhunter: "Kettle Stitch" is the Library Police's nickname for the book thief they're hunting; so called because their high-quality forgery (left behind to hide the fact that the theft occurred at all) used a kettle stitch to bind the leaflets, rather than the common catch stitch.

There are several in the Hunger Games fic Some Semblance of Meaning: Kit is called "Kitty" and occasionally "Kitty Cat" or "Kitty Kitty" by Vale and Lavinia, while Kit refers to Obsidian Citrine as "Citrus." Vale's sister Laurel is the first to refer to Obsidian as "Sid"; Vale eventually begins to do it as well (instead of referring to him as "He-Who-Is-Ridiculously-Named"). Also, Vale is occasionally referred to by Sid as "sparkle girl," and Damon refers to her as "the girl who wore stars on her heart," which she likes.

In The Games of the Gods, Rachel and Kari fall into Middle-earth, become elves, and take Elvish names. Rachel becomes Elenlómë and Kari becomes Alkarisil. In the cover story, "Rachel" and "Kari" are nicknames. The truth is that "Rachel" and "Kari" are their names from Australia, and Rachel invented the Elvish names. Rachel prefers to be "Rachel", but "Kari" becomes Alkarisil to all but a few friends.

In Lothíriel by JunoMagic, the hobbits shorten Lothíriel to "Lothy", and Lothíriel herself shortens Míriel to "Míri" and Meluir to "Mel".

In Time Will Tell, the elves sometimes give Elvish names to humans. Jorryn becomes Mistadiel "straying daughter". Denuwyn, a girl of Rohan, becomes Merilnan "flower of the valley".

Capt. Kanril Eleya calls her first officer, Cdr. Tesjha Phohl, "Tess". Her science officer, Cdr. Birail Riyannis, is "Biri". For her part, Tess once calls Eleya "El" when she's in BFF mode instead of Number One mode.

In Weasley Girl, Harry Potter and his friends get the collective nickname "Potter's Gang." It's coined by Snape, who means it as an insult, but it's picked up by the students, the narrative and eventually the gang themselves (though Hermione initially protests that they're not Harry's gang, thank you very much). Malfoy, Crabbe and Goyle get the collective nickname "The Trolls," which is admittedly mostly used by Potter's Gang.

Morgaiah t'Thavrau of Legacy of ch'Rihan and related stories is frequently referred to as "Morgan". This is finally explained in "Flaihhsam s'Spahkh" as a childhood nickname given to her by a human friend (the daughter of a Federation embassy officer).

Sode no Shirayuki in The Snow Has Stopped The Rain is usually called "Shirayuki" by both the text and other characters, presumably because her full name is kind of a mouthful. Zangetsu takes it a step further and usually calls her "Shira".

In Cars, Sally nicknames Lightning "Stickers," because like Real Life racing cars, he has no headlights, just stickers. It starts out derisive, but eventually becomes an Insult of Endearment.

In Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea, "Ponyo" is just a nickname Sousuke gives to the titular fish. Her real name is Brunhilde. Her dad is none too happy about the way she prefers "Ponyo" over "Brunhilde..."

All Dogs Go to Heaven: Charlie calls Anne-Marie "Squeaker" after she keeps him awake with the squeaking of her bed.

Dumbo: "Dumbo" is a mean nickname given to a large eared baby elephant whose true name is Jumbo Jr. (Most people do not realize this and the movie title itself uses the Nickname)

In the Star Wars movies and the expanded universe, droids often get called by a nickname based on their number and initials said as one word. Por Ejemplo: R2-D2 and C3P0 are called "Artoo" and "Threepio" respectively.

Han Solo in particular has a habit of assigning nicknames (though admittedly not particularly clever ones). He frequently refers to his companions in the first movie as "Kid" (Luke), "Princess" (Leia), and "Goldenrod" (C3-P0).

Wendy Torrance: We call him Doc sometimes, you know, like in the Bugs Bunny cartoons. But how did you know that? Dick Hallorann: ...Well, I guess I probably heard you call him that. Wendy Torrance: ...Well, it's possible, but I honestly don't remember calling him that since we've been with you.

The term "Hammeroids" is used by Tony Stark to refer to Justin Hammer's drones, and it's become so popular that it's become often confused as a Fan Nickname.

Hammer claims the 7.62mm 6-barrel minigun that ends up integrated with the War Machine suit is known to the US soldiers who use them as, alternately, Uncle Gazpacho or "Puff the Magic Dragon". (He was half-right here: The AC-47 gunship, a Vietnam-era ground-support aircraft fitted with several such miniguns for More Dakka, was nicknamed "Puff the Magic Dragon" for the hail of tracer rounds it rained down on the enemy.) He also nicknames his not-so-super mini-bunker-buster, supposedly capable of "reducing the population of any standing structure to 0" (although it's actually a laughable dud) the "Ex-Wife".

The Little Rascals series: Just about every boy had a nickname. Some became so identified with their characters that their nicknames followed them in life; i.e., Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer, George "Spanky" McFarlane, etc.

The Scribbler takes place at Juniper Towers, a run-down high-rise complex that serves as a halfway house for recovering mental patients. Unfortunately, the complex is so plagued by patients apparently leaping to their deaths that it becomes known as "Jumper Towers," to the extent that someone spray-painted the nickname onto the complex's front-yard sign.

As the Cool Cars' names are unpronouncable strings of letters and numbers, the heroes dub them Ghosts.

The media nickname Sam, Eddie and Ludlow as the "Arcaders".

Literature

Animorphs: Rachel was "Xena" courtesy of Marco, and Ax often got called 'Ax-man'. Jake was Fearless Leader from time to time. And the Andalites called Visser Three The Abomination. Tobias was sometimes called 'Bird Boy' for obvious reasons.

In L. M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables series has a few. Gilbert and Anne have nicknames to each other; after their marriage, he calls her "Anne-girl", while she calls him "Gil". Their oldest son James is called Jem; their twins Anne and Diana are nicknamed Di and Nan, and their youngest daughter Bertha Marilla is nicknamed Rilla. Her brother, Walter, calls her "Rilla-my-Rilla", a play on her middle name. This nickname is eventually adopted and used by her crush later, fiance, Kenneth Ford.

In Billy Budd, Captain Edward Vere is known to his crew as "Starry Vere."

The firstborn daughter in any family of A Brother's Price is named Eldest and raised to be the leader of her subsequent sisters. Five years old and an only child, Eldest Porter is affectionately called Eldie by her 'aunt' Ren.

In Dora Wilk Series, Witkacy calls Dora "Ti" for reasons unknown, which she doesn't mind, and many demons, such as As, use nicknames because someone who knows their true name has power over them.

The Dresden Files: Harry Dresden nicknames everything. While most of them don't stick, a few catch on even with other characters. Notably, the Archive is Ivy, the skinwalker is Shagnasty, and the Denarians are the Nickelheads. It says something about Harry that these are, respectively, the repository of all human knowledge, an Eldritch Abomination, and an order of psychos and fallen angels. It even gets to be a plot point at times; naming Ivy gave her her own identity separate from the Archive, which helped her avoid snapping when the Nickelheads caught her.

Not to mention his nickname for the fallen angel Lasciel, Lash, helping the shadow version of Lash that resided inside Harry's head separate from her former self and helped her gain a sense of identity.

In the series, it's explicitly stated that giving something a name gives it an identity. Another example is Bob, the air spirit Harry keeps in a skull: in Dead Beat, we find out just how much of Bob's genial and helpful personality is a result of being in Harry's service as opposed to that of someone more serious and less ethical.

Because of this fact, the angel Uriel objected strenuously to being nicknamed Uri, and actually succeeds in getting Harry to stop using it.

Semirah, in Dr Franklins Island, is called Semi by everyone except Doctor Franklin himself. She called Miranda "Very Cool Girl" until she got to know her. After they are transformed she sometimes calls them Miranda-the-bird and Semi-the-fish and Arnie-the-snake while describing physical things they're doing. Arnie often sarcastically calls Miranda "Wonder Girl".

The main character of the series, Admiral Honor "The Salamander" Harrington. Given to her by some of her detractors who noted that she always seemed to find herself "where the fire is hottest."

In The Host some Souls have these since their names tend to be mouthfuls. We get Wanda for Wanderer, Sunny for Sunlight Passing Through the Ice, Pet for Petals Open to the Moon, Fords for Fords Deeps Waters and Burns for Burns Living Flowers.

In the Moran and Moriarty stories The Hound of the D'Urbervilles, Sebastian Moran often goes by "Basher", not only cause of his first name but because he's a terrifically violent man. Also, in a nod to Holmes considering Irene Adler the woman, both M men call her that bitch.

In The Hunger Games Katniss refers to one of her fellow tributes as "Foxface". We never find out her actual name.

She also likes to refer to Peeta as "the boy with the bread".

Gale affectionately calls Katniss "Catnip".

Haymitch usually refers to his two tributes as "sweetheart" and "the boy".

Kim in Rudyard Kipling's novel of the same name is known in Lahore as the Little Friend of All the World.

Lythande: Other Pilgrim Adepts know Lythande as "The Shadow", due to a sneaky and stealthy reputation.

Simon Lewis from The Mortal Instruments, is often called Daylighter by Downworlders, for that unique, annoying detail about being a vampire that can walk around in sunlight. Thanks, Jace's angel blood.

In A Song of Ice and Fire, a large quantity of characters have nicknames. Some of the more frequent ones include Jaime "the Kingslayer" Lannister, named for his Bodyguard Betrayal, Gregor "the Mountain the Rides" Clegane, named for his huge size, Tyrion "the Imp" Lannister, named for his dwarfism, and Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish, named for his short stature and lordship in the Fingers region.

In The Stand, Glen Bateman calls Stu Redman "East Texas" who in turn calls him "baldy".

Quite a few fighter pilots, especially in the X-Wing Series, have nicknames, either given or used as callsigns. For example, Garik Loran is "The Face" (or simply "Face"), Voort Sa Binring is "Piggy", Jaina Solo is "Sticks", etc. Many astromech droids also get nicknames, such as Corran Horn's R2 unit, "Whistler".

Ukiah Oregon Indigo is called "The FBI" as a short form of "Frigid Bitch of Ice" by law enforcement, though letting her know that is a very bad idea. The Pack, talking about her to Ukiah, call her "Your lady of steel."

In Vorkosigan Saga, The Dragon of Emperor Dorca the Just was called Pierre La Sanguinere (or "The Bloody") used to emphasize both his badassery and ruthlessness. In more modern and settled times, Rene Vorbretten gets called "Ghembretten" by his enemies when it's discovered that his grandfather was one of the Cetagandan Ghem-caste invaders, not the Count Vorbretten that his right to the countship derives from.

Wicked Lovely has a few, most notably Aislinn being referred to as Ash more often than not. Niall is also most often called Gancanagh, although that's more because he is a gancanagh.

Karl May lived by this trope, for instance in the stories set in the American West, most of the Westmänner (Westmen) go by their colourful nicknames, not their real ones, for instance Old Shatterhand, Old Surehand, Old Firehand, Old Death, Old Wabble, Gunstick-Uncle, Earless and Tante Droll ("Aunt Droll").

"Betvingade": Markus is some times called "Järven", meaning "Wolverine".

"De skandalösa": Gabriel starts calling Magdalena "Malla".

Somewhither: A lot of characters from alternate Earths have complicated names, so no wonder the protagonist comes up with lots of handy nicknames. Examples include "Abby" for Abanshaddi, "Knack" for Kaqqudu Nakasu, and "Master Ossifrage" for Sua'u-su'u-ussushibu-re'u (a literal translation of his name).

Live-Action TV

Workaholics has this with main character Anders being almost exclusively called Ders. (He also hates it when people call him Ann-Ders, its On-Ders). In one episode, we see how Mean Boss Alice is actually kind of a misfit within the larger corporate world-she takes Ders to a conference and points out two people with nicknames: Gale Reynolds, aka The Barrucada, and Don Walters, aka Psycho D. She even mentions that no one ever gave her a nickname, and Ders calls himself (once) Stat-Cat Ders.

Lois usually calls Clark "Smallville", but "Clarky" on rare occasions. Lois almost always just call Chloe "cous" (as in, "cousin") or "Chlo"note Many Fan Fic writers picked this up to use as an Affectionate Nickname from whoever they are pairing Chloe with, or more rarely "Goldilocks". She once calls Jimmy "Baby Bear", and he is not happy.

Chloe sometimes call Lois "Lo".

Jimmy sometimes call Chloe "Brighteyes". And yes, she has eyes that you can't stop staring at.

Chloe's boss at the Daily Planet used to call her "Chloster". Jimmy picked it up. She is not amused.

Chloe: How much blunt trauma do you think a stapler to the back of the head would cause?

The names Martian Manhunter and Supergirl starts out as Chloe's nickname for them in Smallville. She is also known for calling Clark the Man of Steel.

Oliver started the tradition of calling Clark "Boy Scout" and Bart "Impulse". Bizarrely, Brainiac sometimes also call him that, but he always refer to him as Kal-El face to face.

Lost has lots and lots of these, thanks to Sawyer. There's also The Others for the people who live on the island. What they call themselves is never revealed.

Doctor Cox in Scrubs has nicknames for almost everybody: Elliot is Barbie, Turk is Gandi, Kelso is Bobbo, Doug is Nervous Guy or Pee Pants, and JD is either "Newbie" or whatever girl's name he can think of. Carla, who was his only friend at the beginning of the series, is the only one he doesn't nickname.

Stiles is a nickname in an of itself; his first name is never revealed because of how embarrassing it apparently is.

Coach Finstock: Stiles, that's right. I thought "Stiles" was his last name. Sheriff: His last name is "Stilinski". Coach Finstock: You named your kid "Stiles Stilinski"? Sheriff: No, that's just what he likes to be called.

Coach Finstock: Oh. Well, I like to be called "cupcake". What is his first name? *reads it on a file* Wow, that's a form of child abuse. I don't - I don't even know how to pronounce that.

Ellie calls Laurie "Jellybean" all the time on Cougar Town. It is not a term of endearment.

Jules' father Chick calls her "Junebug".

Bobby calls Jules "J-Bird" and Andy "Ando". One episode states that giving cool nicknames is his "superpower".

In House, the title character sometimes played the role of The Nicknamer. Most of the applicants introduced in season four aren't ever called by their real names. Some of them even have more than one nickname. They include Thirteen, Cutthroat Bitch, Grumpy, Big Love/Black Mormon, Scooter/Ridiculously Old Fraud/Bosley, and a couple of others.

In The X-Files, Mulder, by others in the FBI, is known as "Spooky" Mulder, though not originally for his work in the paranormal. Originally, the nickname referred to Mulder's incredible profiling skills when he was in the Academy, and when he worked in the VCU. The nickname the FBI gave Scully after she started working with Mulder was "Mrs. Spooky".

The hosts and mad scientists had new nicknames for each other nearly every episode on MST3K.

Mike Nelson: What's up, Mother-of-Pearl?

Pearl Forrester: I give the nicknames around here Nel... son.

Pearl called Crow "Art", which was actually an In-Joke based on a fan letter to the show.

TV's Frank called Dr. Clayton Forrester "Steve" for no particular reason at all. There was massive debate among MSTies over whether it was some obscure pop culture reference until Word of God from Frank Conniff confirmed that it was just a random gag.

On Homicide Life On The Street Stanley Bolander was universally known as "Big Man" and everyone called Lt Giardello "Gee." The latter might seem like a simple contraction of his surname, but it actually came from what he said on his first murder scene.

The Doctor from Doctor Who was known as "Theta Sigma" or "Good Old Thete" by his schoolfriends, apparently after his exam results. Also, Donna called him Spaceman, because he is a man from Space...

Natasha Yar is Tasha to everyone, even on duty. The same goes for Geordi.

Q often calls Worf "Microbrain".

Star Trek: Enterprise: Chief Engineer Tucker is called "Trip" because his full name is Charles Tucker III.

Justin from Queer as Folk is called "Sunshine" by Debbie, and sometimes Brian.

The characters of Saved by the Bell have a few nicknames for each other. Slater calls Zack "preppie" and Jesse "mama". Jesse occasionally refers to him as "papa". And of course Samuel Powers, who everyone calls "Skreech."

Spike, (whose real name is William), has nicknames for almost everyone. He calls Angel "Peaches", Willow "Red", Xander "The Whelp", Anya "Demon-Girl", and so forth. He calls Buffy "Slayer", "pet", and "love", but these probably don't count, as she simply is the Slayer, and "pet" and "love" are used as pretty standard slang. On Angel, Illyria was 'Blue' or 'Big Blue' or 'Smurf'.

Giles is also known as Ripper.

Genevieve is sometimes called Gigi.

On the Angel end, Wes was often called 'English' by Gunn. Lorne was always using food nicknames for Angel. "Angelcakes" "Angelhair" "Angelfood". Lorne himself was often "The Host" because of his job owning Caritas. Groosalugg was called 'Groo' by Cordy. Fred apparently sometimes called Wes 'Bookman' during their all too brief romance.

Benjamin "Hawkeye" Pierce came with his when he arrived in the unit; his father gave it to him, after The Last of the Mohicans.

Walter O'Reilly became "Radar" because of his extraordinary ability to detect arriving helicopters and anticipate the needs/whims of his supervisor.

"Trapper John" McIntyre, a carryover from the original novel and film (where the nickname came from an incident where he and a college co-ed were caught having sex in a railroad-car restroom, and she claimed that he'd "trapped" her).

Frank "Ferret Face" Burns, a nickname that was first given to him by his own brother.

Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan

Oliver "Spearchucker" Jones

"Ugly John" Black

Hawkeye, Trapper, and B.J. would often address each other as "Hawk", "Trap", and "Beej", respectively.

Berta of Two and a Half Men calls Alan "Zippy", possibly referring to the fact that he's always running under stress.

It was because he's quick in bed, actually.

The main characters on Gossip Girl call each other by their first initial (Blair is B, Serena is S and so on), and Gossip Girl herself tends to refer to them that way. Jenny is Little J and Blair is also called Queen B. Dan does not get this treatment however, but Gossip Girl likes to refer to him as Lonely Boy.

DiNozzo has an endless string of names for McGee based on his last name, such as McGoogle, as well as "Probie." Other members of the cast sometimes call McGee "Elf Lord," because of his online gaming hobby. "Aqua Smurf" has showed up occasionally.

On Heroes, Hiro Nakamura doesn't seem capable of seeing Nathan Petrelli without punching his fists in the air and shouting "FLYING-MAN!!!".

On Criminal Minds, Garcia has nicknames for everyone, not to mention Morgan's nicknames for Garcia. Morgan also has the tendency to call Reid "kid" or occasionally "Pretty Boy". Additionally, Reid mentions in the fourth episode of the series that JJ is the only person who ever calls him "Spence". JJ herself is almost always called just JJ, short for Jennifer Jareau.

In Kamen Rider Fourze, school principal Hayami refers to teacher Sonoda as "puppy"; she was the Canis Minor Zodiarts and his protege before she evolved into Scorpio and joined him as a Co Dragon.

On Supernatural Dean throws around nicknames a lot, but the most important one was 'Cas,' which came to denote the whole separate identity the angel Castiel developed as he bonded with humans, rebelled against Heaven, and sought to stop the Apocalypse. The name caught on in fandom on Castiel's first appearance.

Sam's hallucination of Lucifer, while providing Sam's side of the conversation, referred to himself as 'Lucy.' He was always a very... laid-back being, but the longer he's Sam's hallucination the more goofy and petulant he gets.

CSI NY Danny has always called Lindsay 'Montana' ever since she started working on the team. That said, it's a bit less frequent now that they're married, although it pops up from time to time along with a rather natural occasional 'Babe'

On the original CSI, D.B. likes to call Julie Finn 'Jules', and she always hates it.

The call-signs of the Viper- and Raptor-pilots function as nicknames to varying degrees.

Kara 'Starbuck' Thrace and Karl 'Helo' Agathon are almost always called by their call-signs in conversation.

Sometimes the call-sign clearly originates in a nickname, as with Louanne 'Kat' Katraine.

Sharon 'Athena' Agathon is an example of a pilot more usually called by her actual first name.

There are several Cylons with the same form wondering around in the story at any one time, and though it appears Cylons usually have little use for individual names, so it becomes important to distinguish between them.

For example, the first Number Six iteration we encounter in the story later gains the nickname 'Caprica Six' amongst her people.

All of the Cylon models except Six also have a human name that is used as an alias by one of their members at one point, but is used later to refer to the model as a whole (e.g. the Dorals). Some of these might not be nicknames or even aliases, though, as Number One was named John Cavil by his creators.

William Adama has a couple of nicknames as well. There's his call sign, "Husker," which is rarely used in the main series; "The Old Man," used by several people, but mostly Col. Tigh; and "Zeus," used a few times by Tom Zarek.

Horatio has several nicknames. Jack Simpson, a midshipman of a bully, keeps calling him "Snotty". His friend, the Duchess of Wharfedale, nicknames him "Mr Aitch", and Maria Mason who marries him calls him "Horry". The first one is clearly meant to be offensive, the second is quite affectionate and he enjoys the Duchess's flattery, but Maria genuinely doesn't know that he dislikes her pet name.

A "Snotty" is actually a generic Royal Navy term for a Midshipman, the lowest form of commissioned officer rank.

Dr. Jorge Villanueva has two (or one, but in two languages) rather flattering. He's called "El Gato" and "Big Cat". Quite appropriate for a legendary trauma surgeon and a Bald Black Leader Guy.

Ally McBeal: John Cage is "The Biscuit" (a very old nickname from school), Nelle Porter is "Sub-zero" (she's an Ice Queen), Mark Albert is "The Closer" (he's supposed to be brilliant with his closing arguments), and one Elaine's friend and former employee of the firm is called "Peanut" (because he's little).

The Big Bang Theory: Rajesh is usually called Raj for short; Sheldon is called Shelley by his mom and sister; and Howard and Bernadette call each other Howie and Bernie.

Jim in When I'm Sixty-Four was always known at his school as "Beaky" due to his rather prominent nose. One of the first things he does once he retires is check himself into a plastic surgery clinic to get it fixed.

Warehouse 13's Steve Jinks is referred to as 'Jinksy' by Pete in his first episode, and it sticks, although Claudia tends to use it the most. He also picks up the somewhat less flattering 'Poopypants' due to his serious and rule-abiding nature, and Claudia refers to him by numerous one-off nicknames. In turn, he refers to her as 'Claud', something that Pete and Myka eventually pick up but don't use as often.

Pete is prone to nicknaming people in general, especially the various people they meet during cases. On a more consistent basis, he refers to Myka as 'Mykes' and Artie eventually gains the name 'Artiemus'.

Sanctuary: Nikola Tesla is a persistent nicknamer, and Henry bears the brunt of this tendency. He gets referred to by such names as 'Heinrich', 'Wolf Boy', 'Furrious George' and, on one memorable occasion, 'Enrico the Wonder-Wolf'. Henry is also nicknamed 'Hank' by Kate, and 'H' by Will.

Pinballs

Nearly all of the pool players in Sharkey's Shootout has a nickname, either as an identifier or reflecting their specialty:

"I am The Whistler, and I know many things for I walk by night. I know many strange tales hidden in the hearts of men and women who have stepped into the shadows. Yes! I know the nameless terrors of which they dare not speak."

The Jimmy Durante Show: During the 1940s, a sexually provocative character was named "Hotbreath" Houlihan.

"Hotbreath" was played by Florence Halop, who replaced Selma Diamond on Night Court about forty years later. (You wouldn't think it to look at her on Night Court, but she could really sell the sexy voice on radio when she was in her twenties.)

"Hotbreath's" nickname may have been the inspiration for the similarly nicknamed character Margaret "Hotlips" Houlihan in Mash.

The Aldrich Family: In the radio and film series, some of the schoolmates of adolescent (and adenoidal) lead character Henry Aldrich had nicknames:

Basil "Dizzy" Stevens, Henry's best friend during the first few seasons;

"Stringbean" Kittinger, a girl who hadn't yet developed.

"Tubby" Gibbons

"Pinkie" Peters

"Butch" Williams

"Burbly Burwasher" from The Navy Lark due to the way he talks (not that anybody says that to his face).

Tabletop Games

In Rifts, soldiers of the Coalition States are known as Dead Boys, due to the Coalition's fixation with adorning all their armor and vehicles with a Death's Head motif.

The genetically uplifting canines called Psi-Hounds are so commonly called Dog Boys that people often get confused when someone calls them by their proper designation.

The name of the old USA's Chromium Guard power armors is largely a thing of the past, instead everyone knows them as Glitter Boys.

In Star Realms, the humans merely nicknamed the Alien Faction "Blobs". This came about after examining captured alien ships, and found the organic jelly remains of the crews.

"The boys call me Stinky—because I never can stop the barber from putting things on my hair."

In the 2013 West End musical Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Violet Beauregarde is a Shameless Self-Promoter who has, with her father's help, parlayed her non-talent of chewing gum into stardom. When she refuses to heed Mr. Wonka's warnings about chewing a stick of experimental prototype gum, she transforms into a gigantic blueberry, and the Oompa-Loompas christen her "Juicy!" in The Villain Sucks Song that follows ("Juicy is a girl named Violet B./She doesn't have a talent as far as we can see").

Video Games

Dr. Ivo Robotnik from Sonic the Hedgehog series is usually known by his nickname (and, in Japan, original name) Dr. Eggman nowadays.

Neku in The World Ends with You gets called "'phones" because of his headphones (and what they imply). Neku refers to Minamimoto as "the Grim Heaper". Beat calls Kariya and Uzuki "lollipop" and "pinky", respectively. Many castmembers (and players) call Hanekoma "Mr. H", and Kitaniji gets called "shades".

Beat is itself a (self-granted) nickname, as is Rhyme (his partner and sister).

The World Ends With You is brimming with these. Nearly every hero has at least three, and the villains average about four each.

In the Harvest Moon games, you get a nickname from your spouse once you get married. Some games will offer up their own suggestions ("Honey," "Sweetie," "Darling"), but you can also come up with your own in a Hello, Insert Name Here fashion.

In Animal Crossing, your neighbors will sometimes come up with nicknames for you. Some of them are independent and pre-programmed (such as "buddy" or "sparky"), but some of them are based on your name. (So if your name was "Andy," they might give you nicknames like "A-Dawg" and "A-Boss.")

In The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Link is given all sorts of nicknames to get around the whole custom name business and simplify programming: Fairy Boy, Hero Boy, Mr. Hero, and so on.

In Majora's Mask, Romani takes to calling Link "Grasshopper", since he apparently patters about when he walks and wears green.

In Devil Survivor, Yuzu and Atsuro do this to each other. He calls her "Yoohoo" to needle her and when she gets mad at him she calls him "Otakuro" to make fun of his otaku tendencies. Furthermore, you can chose a nickname for your protagonist, which will be used by Yuzu and Atsuro (other characters will use his real name, which you also chose).

Yangus constantly refers to the main character of Dragon Quest VIII as "Guv". Even Jessica called him by that name once when they were imprisoned.

In-game trades in the Pokémon games will always have said traded Pokemon already have a nickname. For example, in Pokémon Yellow, you can trade your Cubone for a Machoke Machamp named "Ricky".

In PokéPark Wii, the main character is a technically nameless Pikachu, but the Pokemon of the Lava Zone nickname him Lightning Strike.

You get to choose your character's nickname in Pokemon X and Y. There are default choices or you can choose your own. The default ones involve the first letter of your name, like 'Lady *latter* or 'Little' *letter* or 'Queen' *letter* for a female or 'Lil' *letter* or 'Big' *letter* or '*letter*-meister' for a male.

Taokaka is quite The Nicknamer. Her repertoire also contains "Lacking Lady"note Noel Vermillion, "Green Guy"note Hazama, who has green hair, "Ice Man"note Jin Kisaragi, "Creepy Guy" note Jin again and so on. Ragna also gets called "Raggy" and "Rags" by Hazama.

In the North American version of Chrono Cross, certain children from your village will add a "Y" to whatever you choose to name yourself. This worked fine for most names, but created a rather odd looking/sounding name if what you put in ends with an O or a Y, resulting in names like "Marcoy" or "Tonyy."

Excellen Browning stylizes herself as "Ms. Excel" ("Ex-oneesama", in the original Japanese), to promote her Cool Big Sis attributes. She also calls her Humongous Mecha Weiss Ritter affectionately as "Weissy" ("Weiss-chan", in the original Japanese).

In Mark of the Assassin, Hawke finally asks Varric for a nickname and gets a different one depending on personality; "Waffles" for a Paragon Hawke, "Killer" for a Ruthless Hawke and "Chuckles" for Snarky Hawke. The latter personality actually admits they like "Chuckles".

While being called sempai is easily an honorific for the Persona 4 main character, he is called 'Sensei' by Teddie simply for his coolness factor. His Lancer Yosuke calls him "Partner".

He's a Heroic Mime who the player gets to name, so the voice-over gives him a lot of nicknames: senpai, 'Sensei', Partner, Ni-san (Big-Bro in the dub), Chief, Boss, etc.

In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Mario earns the name "The Great Gonzales" as his fighting name in the Glitz Pit. Even after he stops being a Glitz Pit fighter, his Yoshi partner continues to call him "Gonzales." Then again, he was quite literally hatched in the pit, as he points out when saying goodbye to Mario in the ending.

Each of the three main characters in Beyond Good & Evil has a canon nickname. Jade's is "Shauni," after her IRIS callsign. Double H's is "Hub," which the people of IRIS call him and may or may not be his real name. Pey'j's, which he gets only late-game, is "Chief," because he is.

Dr. Herbert Higginbotham from LittleBigPlanet 2 is also known as "Halitosis Herbert".

Subverted by Otacon and Solid Snake in the Metal Gear Solid games. Most everyone uses those names for them, as they are their official code names. The depth of their friendship is shown in the fact that they sometimes refer to each other by their real names — Hal and Dave, respectively.

Professor Layton has minor nicknames for the two kids in his life. His apprentice, Luke, is often "my boy," while his adopted daughter Flora is the only person he ever addresses as "dear."

Lord Alden from Vanguard Bandits has earned the nickname Ice Wolf for his powerful ice-based ATAC, ruling over the coldest land on the continent and cool demeanor in combat.

Vert/Green Heart from Neptunia earns the nickname "Thunder Tits" from Blanc/White Heart in the first game's intro sequence.

The main heroine, Neptune/Purple Heart, is called "Nep-Nep" by Compa, "Nep" by IF, "Neppy" by Plutia and "Neptuna" by Peashy.

IF is called "Iffy" by Neptune, Compa and Vert.

Nepgear is called "Ge-Ge" by Compa, "Gear" by IF, and "Nep Jr." by Neptune.

Plutia is called "Plutie" by Neptune, "Ploot" by Peashy, and "Plu-Plu" by Compa. Neptune also calls IrisHeart "Sadie (Sadist + Plutie)".

Peashy is called "P-ko" by Neptune, and "Pea-Pea" by Compa.

Uriel Chuluun and Kira Thanos are the primary source of this (among otherthings) in Rift. First, Uriel calls Kira "Kay Tee" (much to her dismay). Kira snarkily calls Uriel "Princess" (which is technically true) in response (much to her delight). And the tie-in story "Drowning in Snow" has Kira referring to the Mighty Leap ability (a racial trait attributable to being part air elemental) as "Bahmi Bounce."

In Tribes, the Spinfusor, a gun that shoots what are essentially exploding blue Frisbees, is nicknamed the Stormhammer in the second game's manual.

In Grand Theft Auto V, several characters refer to Michael and Trevor as "Mikey" and "T," respectively. (As for Michael and Trevor themselves, they use each other's nicknames about as often as they use each other's real names, reflecting their simultaneously close and strained relationship throughout the game.)

In Ever17, Sara calls her friend Tanaka You "Nakkyu", and You calls Sara "Mayo". Additionally, Coco uses "Takepyon", "Tsugumin", and "Shou-chan" for Takeshi, Tsugumi, and the Kid note aka. Shounen in the original Japanese version, whereas the english version has her use "Kiddo" as a nickname instead..

In Remember11, Yuni refers to Kokoro as "Kokoron", and Lin as "Tobilin".

Nick and Edgey are Larry Butz's nicknames for Phoenix Wright and Miles Edgeworth, respectively. Mia catches onto "Nick", and when she dies, she passes it on to Maya, whose use of it inspires Pearl to call him "Mr. Nick". Edgeworth, on the other extreme, is rarely called by his nickname, and rarer still by his first name.

And there's Damon Gant, who calls them "Wright-O" and "Worthy", and the Judge "Udgey". And Godot, who calls Nick "Mr. Trite."

Larry Butz also likes to call Franziska von Karma "Franzy", much to her extreme displeasure.

Pearl gets called "Pearls" by Phoenix and "Pearly" by Maya. In the former case, it was because he couldn't bring himself to call her by her real name (she was too cute).

As for Apollo Justice, he is sometimes called "Polly", but his most famous nickname is Klavier's "Herr Forehead".

Maji De Watashi Ni Koi Shinasai: Kazuko is called Wanko by just about everyone, and the producers often refer to her by the latter name instead. "Wan" is the Japanese onomatopoeia for the sound a dog makes, but the obvious Embarrassing Nickname conceals a Stealth Pun - the "Kazu" in "Kazuko" is written as the Japanese kanji for "one", hence "one-ko".

All over the place in Steins;Gate. The only nickname not coined by Okabe is Mayuri's, who calls herself "Mayushi" (and Okabe "Okarin").

In Demonbane, pretty much everyone refers to the spirit of the Necronomicon simply as "Al", after Kurou shortened it from "al-Azif". He notes it's kind of a strange name for a girl, but "Kitab al-Azif" is too tricky for him to pronounce. Al herself protests at first but accepts it without very much complaint.

In Survival of the Fittest, Nathaniel Harris is referred to as Blood Boy on the sole basis that hardly anyone knew his real name. Also to an extent are most of the terrorists, and Yelizaveta 'Bounce' Volkova.

In Darwins Soldiers, whenever Aimee is out of earshot Shelton calls her "psycho fox lady".

Red vs. Blue has many. The characters usually address Freelancers with a shortened version of their callsign.

When Caboose has to deal with Private Donut, he can only seem to remember the other's name as [Military Rank] + [Pastry], leading to a series of nicknames like "Private McMuffin", "Major Cinnamon Bun", or "Commander Pop-'n-Fresh".

The Downfall meme has a bunch of both this an Fan nicknames, but the one most popular in-series nickname belongs to Joseph Goebbels, who is often addressed as "Skeletor" because he is (or at least he is shown in the movie Downfall to be) extremely pale and thin, which many characters believe makes him look half-dead.

In LIS_DEAD, Dramatic Detective and Mysterious Mr. M will call each other DD and M respectively most of the time.

In the Buildingverse a lot of people end up with nicknames (there are several nicknamers running around). Sarah got Sar in Girls Next Door (and Boss-lady from the goblins in general); Christine Chris (and Chrissy by Tracy in Roommates); James Jamie; Jareth several bordering on insults (the Glittertwit for example, they don't stick); Mrs. Norrington Mrs. N (by Sarah); Éponine 'Pony; Mistoffelees Misto; Darkness (Big) D. etc..

In Worm, Glaistig Uaine uses titles based on their powers to describe various parahumans; most notably, she refers to Taylor as "Queen Administrator."

In Noob, Golgotha has nicknames for quite a few characters, most of which rely on puns difficult to translate from French.

In Filthy Frank, Frank calls himself "Papa Frank", and Safari Man calls him "Furanku". The fans sometimes refer to Frank by this as well.

In RWBY, Weiss seems to get called "Ice Queen" quite a bit. She gets annoyed by this. Two separate guys have also called her "Snow Angel" while flirting.

Lonelygirl15: Daniel is frequently called "Danielbeast" after the name of his YouTube channel.

Edd is usually called "Double-D" to avoid confusion with Ed. Eddy gives Edd the more derisive "Sockhead", while Ed is "Lumpy".

Rolph rarely calls any characters by their real names. The Eds are often called "____ Ed Boy" by him. Nazz is also either referred to as "Spindleshanks Nazz-Girl" or "Go Go Nazz Girl". Kevin also calls Jimmy "Fluffy".

The protagonists are rarely called by their full names; Eddward, Edward, and Edward.Note Then again, the name "Eddy" could be short for Edwin, as only Double-D and Ed had their real names confirmed as Edward

Kevin is called "Shovel Chin" by Eddy due to his large chin.

In All Grown Up!, Tommy, Chuckie, and Dil all call each other by the initial of their first name (T, C, D). Phil does this as well though nobody calls him P.

Many characters of Adventure Time have these. For example, there's Princess Bubblegum, who is on occasion called "PB" and "Peebles".

Spike from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic is sometimes called "Spikey-Wikey". Applejack is sometimes called "AJ", Rainbow Dash is occasionally called "Dash" but more usually, "Rainbow" and once called "RD", Apple Bloom was once called "AB", Sweetie Belle's name has been shorted to just "Sweetie" sometimes, Pinkie Pie is usually just, "Pinkie", Twilight Sparkle is almost always just called "Twilight" (or "Twily" by her brother), Big Macintosh is sometimes called, "Big Mac", Sweetie Belle once called Scootaloo, "Scoot" and new colt, Pipsqueak was sometimes called "Pip" in his debut episode. Also, Rainbow Dash calls Scootaloo, "Squirt". Cadance's full name is "Mi Amore Cadenza".

And there's even more! Rainbow Dash is sometimes called "Dashie" (mostly by Pinkie Pie) and Pinkie herself was once called "Pinks", Twilight sometimes calls her brother "B.B.B.F.F.", and Twilight Sparkle's name is occasionally shortened to just "Twi" while Gilda the griffin was almost always called "G" by Rainbow Dash. On the slightly less pleasant side of things, childhood bullies have referred to Rainbow Dash as "Rainbow Crash" and Fluttershy as "Klutzershy".

The superheroes in Young Justice: Both Robins are called "Rob" or "Boy Wonder," Zatanna is "Z," Miss Martian is "Miss M.," Kid Flash is called "K.F." by Dick and "Kid" by his uncle and Aqualad. Sportsmaster calls Cheshire "little girl" and Artemis "baby girl."

In Motorcity, Mike and Chuck call each other "Mikey" and "Chuckles" at times. Mike often calls Julie "Jules/Jewels." Texas is sometimes called Tex.

In SpongeBob SquarePants, SpongeBob gets called "Spongy" a few times, Patrick "Pat", and Squidward Tentacles' name gets abbreviated to "Squid" or "Squiddy". In the German dub his name is Thaddäus Tentakel, but everyone abbreviates it to "Thaddel", even Thaddäus himself. At one point Squilliam (Siegbert) mockingly calls him "Thaddelchen" (Liebchen Thaddäus Tentakel).

In Series Nicknames are used in Regular Show, too. Mordecai gets "Mordy" or "Mordo", Rigby "Rigs", Benson gets called "Benny" a few times and got nicknamed "Bens" once, and High Five Ghost's name gets abbreviated to "Fives".

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